Maria Rohm
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Maria Rohm is an Austrian actress.
She is famous for appearing in many exploitation film
s directed by Jesús Franco
in the late 60s. She was married to film producer Harry Alan Towers
from 1964 until his death in 2009. She has been retired from acting since 1976, and is now a film producer.
She is famous for appearing in many exploitation film
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
s directed by Jesús Franco
Jesús Franco
Jesús "Jess" Franco is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England...
in the late 60s. She was married to film producer Harry Alan Towers
Harry Alan Towers
Harry Alan Towers was a British-born radio and film producer and screenwriter, regularly using the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. He produced over a hundred feature films and continued to write and produce well into his eighties...
from 1964 until his death in 2009. She has been retired from acting since 1976, and is now a film producer.
Partial filmography
- Twenty-Four Hours to Kill (1965)
- The Million Eyes of SumuruThe Million Eyes of SumuruThe Million Eyes of Sumuru is a 1967 spy film produced by Harry Alan Towers and directed by Lindsay Shonteff, starring Frankie Avalon and George Nader, with Shirley Eaton as the titular Sumuru. It was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniac femme fatale. The film was released...
(1966) as Helga - Five Golden DragonsFive Golden DragonsFive Golden Dragons is a 1967 action film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Robert Cummings. -Cast:* Robert Cummings - Bob Mitchell* Margaret Lee - Magda* Rupert Davies - Comm...
(1966) - The Vengeance of Fu ManchuThe Vengeance of Fu ManchuThe Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin. It was the third British/German Constantin Film co-production of the Fu Manchu series and the first to be filmed in Hong Kong.-Plot:In his remote hideaway in the...
(1967) - The House of 1,000 DollsThe House of 1,000 Dolls- Synopsis :When a vacationing couple in Tangiers run into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers. Nader investigates but before he can come up with anything, his friend is murdered...
(1967) - The Face of EveThe Face of EveEve is a 1968 thriller film directed by Robert Lynn and Jeremy Summers and starring Robert Walker Jr., Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee, and introducing Celeste Yarnall as Eve. An explorer looking for a priceless missing Inca treasure in the Amazon jungle runs across a lost young woman...
(1968) - The Blood of Fu ManchuThe Blood of Fu ManchuThe Blood of Fu Manchu, also known as Fu Manchu and the Kiss of Death, Kiss and Kill and Against All Odds, is a 1968 British adventure crime film based on the fictional Asian villain Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the fourth film in a series, and was preceded by The Vengeance of Fu...
(1968) as Ursula Wagner - The Girl from RioThe Girl from RioThe Girl from Rio is a 1969 Science Fiction film produced by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Jesus Franco and starring Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler and George Sanders. Led by their queen, a tribe of Amazonian woman attack wealthy men, as part of a long-term plan to take over the world...
(The Seven Secrets of Sumuru, 1968) as Leslye - 99 Women (1968) as Marie
- Venus in FursVenus in Furs (1969 film)Venus in Furs is a 1969 Italian supernatural erotic thriller film directed by Jesús Franco and starring James Darren.The film bears only a superficial resemblance to the 1870 Venus in Furs novel by Leopold von Sacher Masoch...
(1969) as Wanda Reed - Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion (1969)
- The Bloody Judge (1969) as Mary Gray
- Count Dracula (1970) as Mina Murray
- Dorian GrayDorian Gray (1970 film)Dorian Gray is a 1970 movie adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Helmut Berger. Directed by Massimo Dallamano, the film stresses the decadence and eroticism of the story and changes the setting to early 1970s London...
(1970) as Alice - Black BeautyBlack BeautyBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only...
(1971) as Anne Piggot - Call of the WildThe Call of the Wild (1972 film)The Call of the Wild is a 1972 British family adventure film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf, George Eastman, and Maria Rohm....
(1972) as Mercedes - Treasure IslandTreasure Island (1972 film)Treasure Island is a 1972 film starring Orson Welles as Long John Silver that is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson....
(1972) as Mrs. Hawkins - Ten Little Indians (1974) as Elsa Martino